Sweet pancakes with brown sugar syrup filling

Hotteok 호떡

Hotteok is a flour dough pancake filled with sugar syrup inside. It’s one of the most popular street snacks in Korea.

Ok, now it’s time for me to release my hotteok recipe!

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I used to make hotteok for my children. How often? So many times! When they came home from school, I would surprise them with my hotteok. I never made it before they came. I prepared some well-fermented dough and the brown sugar mixture. That’s all! Once they entered the home, I said, “Wash your hands and come back to the kitchen! Hotteok will be ready~” with big smile. My children were so happy and excited!

A glass of milk and hot hot hotteok with sizzling golden syrup! Wouldn’t you like it? Yes, children love it! If you want to entertain your children, wait for them with the preparation just as I did.

I make hotteok for myself and my friends these days. Where are my little children!!

I sometimes miss the old times. They are already grownups and live far away from me.

Serve or eat hotteok right after you make it. If someone gives me cold hotteok, I will feel insulted. : ) I will refuse to eat it and save my empty stomach for kimchi and rice! lol

Our first time eating hotteok was 2 years ago when we visited Seoul during Christmas time. The fresh and hot hotteok tasted really good.
Thank you for the recipe and they turned out exactly like we had it.

Hi Maangchi! I am planning to make this recipe for thanksgiving lunch potluck. Going to make a pumpkin filling and/or cinnamon-brown sugar filling. Is there a way to keep and serve these hot? I was thinking of asking to use the oven and keeping these on like 200 degrees in a foil pan. Until ready to “serve”.
Any recommendations? Or should i just take something else?

Thank you Thank you, Thank you! We tried these from a street vendor when on vacation in Seoul a couple years ago. They were sweet and nutty and we fell in love with them. Later that day we tried some again from a different vendor but they were not the same, this time they were savory with scallion, and other veggies. Both were delicious and we wanted more but we couldn’t find anything like them when we returned to the USA. Trader Joe’s sells a frozen savory version that is OK, but nowhere near the taste of fresh cooked.
We’ll be making these soon! We’ll probably use some good Coconut Oil to fry them in.Now if we could just find a recipe for the tube like snacks we ate. They looked like long corn dogs without the stick, fried and with different fillings, some fish based some veggie, some meat based. Don’t have any idea what they were called.
Thanks for all the great recipes!